"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
- Criss Jami
"He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; bu..."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking back..."
- Col. Thomas Aspinwall
"Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky."
- Amit Ray
"I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will f..."
- Sheri S. Tepper
"Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration. Collaboration gives us the freedom to come out of the boundaries of limited realities."
"Saddest thing nowadays is that words can kill"
- Freedom Goodbird
"What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at ..."
- Alice Walker
"There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing."
"Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he h..."
- Stanisław Lem